Red Faction - Strategy Guide (Page 01)
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ORIGINAL FAQ DATE: Thursday, August 9th, 2001
R E D F A C T I O N
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Last Updated : February 2nd, 2004
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UPDATE & REVISION HISTORY
Feb. 2nd
- Surprisingly, after all this time, got a few e-mails, so I added/corrected
that information.
Jan. 31st, 2004
- Brought format up to date with my current FAQs. Did a spell check, and
corrected some errors.
June 2nd
- more comprehensive spell check run
- added more contact information
June 1st
- began multiplayer maps
- finished formatting changes
- couple mistakes found and fixed
May 31st
- couple more secrets
- added two cheats
- added new section; "Multiplayer"
- did a slight formatting change
May 30th
- added a secret
- added more bugs/glitches
- did a quick spell check
May 29th
- walkthrough fully complete!
- added more bugs/glitches
May 28th
- completed more of the walkthrough up to the part where you meet Capek
- did a spell check
- added a bug
May 26th
- began walkthrough; not too far in yet
- completed "Parker" description under "Main Characters"
- completed "Eos" description under "Main Characters"
- completed "Hendrix" description under "Main Characters"
- completed "Weapons" section
- completed "Vehicles" section
- completed "Tactics and Information" section
- completed "Multiplayer" section
- completed "Default Controls" section
- completed "Single Player HUD (Heads Up Display)" section
May 25th
- just begun and completed sections [1] - [11]. Will work on the rest of the
sections and walkthrough next update
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Table Of Contents
[1] Contact Information
[2] Webmaster Information
[3] Where This FAQ May Be Found
[4] Other FAQs Written
[5] FAQ Information
[6] Red Faction Copyright Information
[7] What Is Red Faction?
[8] Red Faction Story
[9] Main Characters
[9.1] Parker
[9.2] Eos
[9.3] Hendrix
[10] Enemies
[10.1] Humans
[10.1.1] Low-level Security Guard
[10.1.2] Medium-level Security Guard
[10.1.3] High-level (Elite) Security Guard
[10.2] Mechanical
[10.2.1] Small Security Bots
[10.2.2] Large Security Bots
[10.3] Mutants
[10.3.1] Reapers
[10.3.2] Re-Animated Miners
[10.3.3] Worm
[10.3.4] Underwater Thing
[10.4] Mercenaries
[10.4.1] Shotgun Mercenaries
[10.4.2] Assault Rifle Mercenaries
[10.5] Civilians
[10.5.1] Doctor
[10.5.2] Nurse
[10.5.3] Technician
[10.5.4] Miners
[11] Weapons
[11.1] Control Baton (UCB-24 Ultor Control Baton
[11.2] Riot Shield (UBS-4 Ultor Riot Body Shield
[11.3] 12MM Pistol (USP-16 Ultor Semi-Automatic Pistol
[11.4] Submachine Gun (UAP-32/20 Ultor Submachine Gun)
[11.5] Automatic Shotgun (UAS-18 Ultor Automatic Combat Shotgun)
[11.6] Assault Rifle (UAR-42 Ultor Military Assault Rifle)
[11.7] Sniper Rifle (USG-50 Ultor Sniper Rifle)
[11.8] Remote Charge (URC-15 Ultor Remote Mining Charge)
[11.9] Grenade (UHG-90 Ultor Offensive Hand Grenade)
[11.10] Flamethrower (UFT-01 Ultor Flamethrower)
[11.11] Rocket Launcher (URL-6T Ultor Tactical Rocket Launcher, "Big Earl"
[11.12] Rail Driver (FCA-26 Magnetic Rail Driver)
[11.13] Precision Rifle (MK/SG-1 Defender Precision Rifle)
[11.14] Heavy Machine Gun (JF60-HMG/BF Heavy Suppression Machine Gun
[11.15] Fusion Rocket Launcher (F-1TL Rocket Launcher)
[12] Vehicles
[12.1] All Terrain Vehicle (ATV)
[12.2] Mine Driller
[12.3] Aesir Fighter
[12.4] Submarine
[12.5] Armored Personnel Carrier (APC)
[13] Tactics and Information
[13.1] Training Mission
[13.2] Locational Damage
[13.3] Movement
[13.4] Stealth
[13.5] Strafing
[13.6] Reloading
[13.7] Turrets and Sentries
[13.8] Buttons
[13.9] Geo-Mod
[13.10] Messages
[14] Multiplayer
[14.1] HUD (Heads Up Display)
[14.2] Options
[14.3] Tactics
[14.3.1] Sniping
[14.3.2] Explosives
[14.3.3] Geo-Mod
[14.3.4] Speed Is Your Friend (Not The Drug, Silly)
[14.4] Maps
[14.4.1] The Lobby
[14.4.2] Installation XJ-15
[14.4.3] Waste Disposal Plant
[14.4.4] The Badlands
[14.4.5] Hangar 18
[14.4.6] Blasted Canyon
[14.4.7] Waterlogged
[14.4.8] Mine Warfare
[14.4.9] Warlords
[15] Default Controls
[16] Single Player HUD (Heads Up Display)
[17] Walkthrough
[17.1] Walkthrough Begins
[18] Secrets
[19] Cheat Codes
[20] Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
[21] Bugs/Glitches
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| [5] FAQ Information |
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Number of Pages : 54
Word Count : 23,375
Line Count : 3,670
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| [6] Red Faction Copyright Information |
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Red Faction - Game and Software copyright 2001 THQ Inc. Developed by
Volition, Inc. Red Faction, Volition, Geo-Mod, THQ and their respective logos
are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of THQ Inc. All rights reserved.
This FAQ is not endorsed or supported in any way by THQ, Volition, it's
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| [8] What Is Red Faction? |
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Red Faction is a first-person-shooter game, in which you control a single
player and basically you see through his eyes. Red Faction takes place on
Mars, and you play a miner who joins a revolt against the mining company,
Ultor. Red Faction has a feature not seen before, called the Geo-Mod engine,
or Geography Modification. With this feature, you can blow up most things you
can see. For example, you come to a door that requires a key. Instead of
searching for the key (which you can do), pull out a rocket launcher or
grenade, and blow a hole in the wall next to the door, thereby creating your
own "door," if you will.
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| [9] Red Faction Story |
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Mars in the near future.
Mars is the planet of opportunity, its mineral wealth feeding the insatiable
needs of Earth, a planet stripped of war materials and mineral. Ultor
Corporation, aptly named after the ancient Roman temple dedicated to Mars, the
Greek God of War, owns all the mining rights on the planet. The company is an
expert at maximizing production while minimizing costs. Fortunes are made as
cargo ship after cargo ship return to Earth filled with precious Noachite.
Mine workers, misled by promises of adventure and easy money, arrive on Mars
by the shuttle load. Few ever make it back to Earth. Conditions in the Ultor
Mines are brutal. The work is dangerous and the miners' living quarters are
disgusting. Environmental suits and bunks are shared between miners on
different shifts. Food is lousy and in short supply. And beatings from Ultor
guards are commonplace.
Worst of all, a mysterious, disfiguring Plague is running rampant through the
mines. As the death toll rises and Ultor remains complacent, the miners' fear
and discontent grows. Pamphlets and posters from an underground organization
begin showing up all over the mining complex. Signed by the mysterious Eos,
the pamphlets tell of bizarre deaths and missing comrades and urge the miners
to take action against Ultor. Tensions run high. The mines are wired like
a powder keg. All it will take is a spark...
During a shift change, a young miner is brutally assaulted by an Ultor guard.
Another miner, Parker, witnesses the brutality and is quickly caught up in the
chaos. He has no choice. Kill or be killed. A rebellion explodes across
Mars.
Can you live long enough to become a hero?
(taken from the Red Faction Instruction Manual, page 2-3)
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| [10] Main Characters |
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There are three main characters during the game, all who play a very important
role in helping you overtake Ultor.
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| [10.1] Parker |
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Parker is you. Or you are Parker. However you want to look at it, the miner
you play as is named Parker and will be referred to as Parker throughout the
walkthrough and the different people in the game.
"I can't believe how stupid I was. Yeah, 'Come to Mars, Help Make A New
World!' How could I have believed that crap?
"I always thought I was different, better than most. Mom and Dad-Dr. and
Dr. Parker, if you please-had my life all scoped out. Private schools, tutors,
prep school, Ivy League for undergrad, then grad school and on to a glittering
career in academia. They had me running their little maze.
"I just couldn't take it anymore. Never being able to separate what I really
wanted from what they'd trained me to want. Not knowing where I began and
where they ended. No achievement was praiseworthy. When the acceptance letter
from Harvard came, they took it like no big deal, just an expected turn in
the maze. I went nuts. I ripped up the letter and stormed out of the house,
hardly able to see straight. I wanted to do something that wasn't another
item to mark off on their progress chart. Signing up for Ultor's mining
operations on Mars sure fit that bill. I drove downtown, saw one of their
recruiting offices, and it just clicked.
"The next thing I knew, I was on a shuttle bound for Mars. That's when it
hit me. What was I doing? The other recruits lost their lunch during
takeoff and it floated about the cabin for the whole ride. I dodged it
during freefall, but when gravity returned on Mars, the mess fell over all
of us.
"Once we left the ship, it didn't get any better. We were stripped naked
and then fire-hosed from sprayers in the walls and ceiling. It was
humiliating-Ultor was showing us who was boss. With the showers over, they
issued us uniforms. None of them fit. One new recruit tried to complain.
He got beaten by the guards and was hauled off to the infirmary. The rest
of us kept our mouths shut.
"The barracks are a nightmare. The narrow bunks are stacked in dank rooms.
Trash covers the floors and graffiti covers the walls. It wouldn't be so
bad if the bed was ours, but we share them. While we're out in the mines, the
previous shift uses our bunks. It's gross.
"Once you're down in the mines, it's pure grunt work. We smash the rock out
of the walls trying to follow a vein of moachite. I'm not sure why they just
don't use bots to do the work. Ultor has them all over the place.
"It's getting tense around here. We're all scared and angry. Angry at Ultor
for the conditions we work in and scared of the Plague. Miners are getting
sick. Not flu-sick but something worse. Every day, dozens of miners collapse,
in the mines and in the barracks, without warning. One minute they're fine,
the next they're on the ground, writhing in pain or sometimes unconscious
even before they hit the floor. And there's something wrong with their faces
too. They seem...puffy or stretched. Some say that they've seen sick miners
whose faces are bulging or pulsating. Everyone is on the verge of panic.
"Lately, there've been pamphlets slapped up on the barracks and cafeteria
walls. They're calling for miners to go on strike against Ultor, to refuse
to work. Some of the flyers even urge us to attack the guards, to get back
at them for all the years of mistreatment. No one knows who writes them.
The pamphlets are signed 'Eos.' Some say it's the name of a group; some say
it's the name of a woman who's trying to stir up the miners.
"The security guards tear down the pamphlets as soon as they see them, but
the damage has already been done. Dozens of people read them. In a few
hours, hundreds of miners are talking about the latest pamphlet. People are
grumbling, glaring at guards, and openly muttering about a strike or worse.
It gets uglier every day.
"I don't know what to think or do. I just want to get out of here alive,
somehow. Harvard sounds better all the time."
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Eos is the leader of Red Faction, the underground resistance who wishes to
fight against the Ultor Corporation. Eos eventually employs Parker.
"There's no going back now. We've finally made a move, after all these years
of planning and talking. With last nights attack, we're finally committed.
"Orion rigged the bomb. Once he was clear, I hit the Alert button outside
the cafeteria. When the security guards ran out of their barracks, the blast
took out six of them. That should stir things up.
"I can't think of them as people. There's too much at stake here. They work
for Ultor, helping the company kill miners. They're the enemy. Too many of
my friends have died to feel pity now. We need to harden attitudes on both
sides, to make conflict inevitable. Once miners realize they have no choice,
once they know their lives depend on defeating Ultor, they they'll fight.
And we'll win.
"I can't believe it took this long. Ultor's made us live like animals for
so many years that we've forgotten we're human. People have been beaten
down, physically and mentally, and it's going to take a strong shock to get
them back up. We're going to provide the juice, even if it kills us. But
no matter what, the miners here will never go back to lurching through life
like zombies. We're going to make sure of that.
"Mom was one of the early Plague victims, over four years ago. Something
about the reactions of the docs and techs in the medical facility made me
wonder what was really going on. When she died, I saw guilt burn across a
doc's face. I started screaming, blaming Ultor. My dad dragged me back to
our apartment and locked me in my room until I stopped yelling. He refused
to hear it. But I knew. I just shut up and churned inside.
"That night, I decided to rid Mars of Ultor. I had to do it for my Mom, for
what they did to her. It began with getting Orion on board. We'd grown up
together and I knew I could trust him. And that is where it all began.
"As our core group grew, it got harder to meet without arousing suspicion.
Orion and I decided to create a smokescreen of athletic competitions between
miner barracks. Each barracks could field one or more teams to meet in weekly
contests. We submitted a proposal to Gryphon, Ultor's Deputy Administrator.
It made my skin crawl to ask him for something, but he quickly approved the
idea. A good morale booster is what he thought. It's pretty funny that Ultor
is helping cover up our activities.
"It was Orion who came up with the name Red Faction for our team. He thought
the political sense of "Faction" would have meaning only for us. And the
"Red" symbolized that we represented all of Mars. The name clicked with
everyone, and Red Faction became the first team to join the new league.
"Once the league got underway, we met several times a week for "training"
sessions. We couched all our planning in sports terms. This gave a light-
hearted feel to a frightening undertaking. Our meetings were also less
dangerous because Ultor had to spread its monitoring efforts among the many
teams in the competitions.
"We all took codenames to use within the group. It probably doesn't provide
all that much protection, but it makes us feel a little safer. We'll see.
Keeping the group small should help too. There are 23 of us now, plus a few
probational recruits. Few enough to be fairly certain there are no leaks,
but more than enough to rally groups of miners against Ultor when the time
comes.
"Sometimes it bothers me how much the others look to me for leadership. What
if I get captured or killed? I'd hate for everything to fall apart if
something happened to me. Orion's the only one with any initiative. Maybe
I've been too forceful, but someone had to do it. We'd still be sitting on
our butts complaining if I hadn't taken charge.
"Last nights action might have gotten the ball rolling. The security goons
are freaking out. I heard they dragged some miners off the third shift and
beat them. Everything's primed for the rebellion to start. All it needs is
a spark.
"And once it gets going, we'll be there to lead it. For weeks now, we've been
blanketing the barracks with pamphlets condemning Ultor and blaming them for
everything wrong on Mars. The writings are signed 'Eos.' I would have
preferred to have them from us as a group, from Red Faction, but that would
have given us away immediately. Orion also said the miners needed someone
to believe in and follow, not another faceless group. Once the rebellion
begins, though, everyone's going to know that Red Faction is the driving
force behind it. There'll be no more hiding.
"We've been stockpiling weapons for months now. We've quietly stolen weapons
from a bunch of weapon lockers at guard barracks and posts. We had to break
into only the first couple we raided. After that, we found the doors unlocked
to every post we tried. The weapon cabinets were unlocked too. It freaked
us out the first time it happened. We figured Ultor was on to us and backed
off pretty quickly. But when we found the door to another weapons locker
open a few nights later, we took some weapons and boxes of ammo and got out
fast. The doors have been unlocked every time since. We still have no idea
why. We don't know if Ultor's doing it or someone else, but we're going to
grab weapons as long as we can. They won't know miners are armed until the
bullets are coming out the backs of their skulls.
"We've cached the stolen weapons throughout the mines and barracks. When the
rebellion starts, Red Faction members will head to the nearest cache and hand
out weapons to any miner willing to fight. The security guards are used to
bullying unarmed miners; they're in for a big shock.
"I don't know what to do about the mercenaries that Masako brought here,
though. They're tough, as so is she. We'll make some feints at important
installations around the complex, maybe get the mercs dug into defensive
positions. If that doesn't work, we're in trouble. The mercs will slice
right through us if they go on the offensive too soon. If we move fast enough,
they won't hit us until we've settled with the guards and gotten everyone
armed. Our sole advantage is numbers, but I don't want to waste thousands of
miners in human wave attacks.
"The next few days are going to make or break us. Four years of planning and
plotting are either going to pay off or get us all killed. Getting rid of
Ultor is the goal for everyone else in Red Faction. But I want more. I want
to know who's behind the Plague. And I want them to die."
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Hendrix is a security technician with Ultor Corporation who is sympathetic
for the Red Faction cause. He states he has his own reasons for helping you,
but who knows what they may be?
"Growing up, I never heard anything negative about Ultor. Mom and Dad gave
their lives to the corporation, in more ways than one. They blamed the
Plague on bad luck, a Martian virus, or bad air-anything but Ultor. When
you're in the belly of the beast, you shy away from wondering if it has your
best interests in mind.
"They wanted to keep me out of the mines in the worst way. They pushed me
to excel at my studies and glowed with pride at every achievement. As long
as I did well in Ultor's schools, I could stay out of the mines. I took all
of the tech courses I could. Not just the mechanical stuff that Ultor pushed
on all of us, but comp sci, physics, chemistry-everything they'd let me into.
Even that didn't stop me. When they wouldn't let me into a certain class, I
just borrowed the tapes from someone who was. I wasn't going to wind up in
the mines.
"As I grew older, I started to hack into Ultor's systems. At first, I was
extremely cautious. A friend of mine, Danny, his father supposedly stole
something. After Ultor found out, Danny's whole family was gone overnight.
I made sure I wouldn't get caught, and started by breaking into unimportant
systems like the lock controls on the door to our apartment or the lights.
"It took me a long time to get up the courage to crack a system outside our
apartment. I kept picturing Danny and his family. I finally screwed up my
nerve and started to hack into the grading records for our complex's school.
I figured security would be pretty lax there, all things considered. It took
me about two weeks of cautious trial and error, but I finally got in. I made
sure I just looked around. When on one came knocking at our door over the
next few days, I went back in and made some small changes to tests scores for
a couple of my friends. I was afraid to do more, as the teachers might
notice.
"When I finished the tech program at age 15, they put me to work in the robot
maintenance division, working on bot electronics. For the past ten years, I've
worked long and hard at it, rising from maintenance to SciLab support and now
to security technician.
"All that time, my real work has gone on at home. One of the first subsystems
I looked for was Ultor's snooper/tracker programs. By watching them work, I
figured out how to avoid detection on my nightly forays. They're not that
smart, so it wasn't hard. I felt safer then and began to explore further.
I cracked hundreds of Ultor systems, never touching data or code, never
leaving a trace (at least I hope not). Over the years, I've broken into
almost every important system in the mining complex.
"The exceptions are certain areas within the SciLabs' computer subnetwork and
the medical facility subnetwork. Incredible security and layers of complex
encoding surround all files within these areas. When I first encountered the
SciLab section of the network, over two years ago, it scared me to death.
Every few months, I work up the courage to look again, but I always stop
short. I'm not even sure I really want to see what's inside anyway. I've
got a bad feeling about it.
"Those network sections are under the personal security of Dr. Capek, the head
of Ultor's Science Labs. He's the scariest person I've ever met. He looks
like he's half robot, with implants all over his body. I think most of my
fear of the SciLab subnet centers on running into Capek, even in a virtual
arena.
"For years, I've existed in two worlds. The physical world that I share with
everyone else here is the daily drudgery of this hellish mining complex. But
the virtual world of Ultor's computer net is mine alone. I've never talked
about it with anyone, and I've never spotted another human presence among the
autonomous programs that run the complex.
"The irony of my current position doesn't escape me. Here I am, a security
technician, entrusted with observing and maintaining a roomful of security
monitors and data analysis equipment. I can watch activity in dozens of
areas throughout the mining complex. I can also switch a monitor to show the
view through any miners' helmetcam, giving me a choice of thousands of mobile
cameras. And yet, I might be Ultor's single greatest security risk.
"With what I know about the systems here, I could probably bring the entire
mining operation crashing down. But they'd be sure to find me then, and I
don't even want to think about that. I can help out anyone who wants to
fight Ultor, though, whatever I can do without much risk. Maybe keep the
rebels one step ahead.
"There are some miners who're willing to start a revolt against Ultor. The
one making the most noise right now goes by the codename 'Eos.' Her group
has been posting flyers urging miners to rise up against Ultor.
"I know who Eos is. Worse yet, Ultor knows too. That's how I found out-by
looking through Ultor security files. I want to warn her, to tell her that
Ultor's on to her and is biding its time for some reason. But I can't bring
myself to contact her. I can't risk exposure. They're watching her and they
might catch me.
"So I sit and watch too, hoping things turn out OK. I've been watching for
years now, as things slowly fall apart, as the miners and Ultor get closer
and closer to a final confrontation.
"That's the way I've always dealt with the world-by sitting and watching.
Even when my parents died. They both seemed like they'd live and work
forever. One day, a little over a year ago, we had just finished dinner when
Dad started shivering and twitching, more violently every second. He flopped
onto the floor before Mom or I could reach him. His face was bulging and
stretching like it was made of rubber. Lumps were moving around under his
clothes too. Mom freaked out. I called the medics, but he was dead before
they got here. They said it was the Plague and had no idea what caused it.
"I'd heard of the Plague, of course. Lots of people on Mom and Dad's shifts
had been hit over the last few years. It always struck suddenly. Sometimes
the victim died within minutes and sometimes he was still alive when the
medics took him away. None of the miners taken away ever came back, so I'm
pretty sure they died too.
"After Mom got over the shock of Dad's death, she got mad, really mad. Dad
had been in for his annual checkup at our section's medical facility just a
week before and she thought they should have found it then. She railed on
and on, night after night, about the medics' incompetence and how they could
have cured him of the Plague. She went in for her annual four months later
and came back ticked off all over again. Turns out she gave them a piece of
her mind the whole time she was in there. Three weeks after that, my
supervisor came into the monitoring room and told me Mom had collapsed in the
tunnels and died before they could get her to a medic.
"My annual checkup is in two weeks; I'm not going."
(all descriptions taken from official sources, both manual and in-game)
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| [11] Enemies |
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You will encounter a variety of enemies throughout the game, human or
otherwise. Some are easy, some are tough, some should be avoided.
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| [11.1] Humans |
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For the most part of the game, you will encounter other humans employed by
Ultor.
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| [11.1.1] Low-level Security Guard |
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These are the guys you will face most often. They will also be dispatched
when alarms are triggered and what-not. The easiest way to defeat these guys
is to use your pistol, a single round from the automatic shotgun, or if you
can get close or behind them without being seen, the control baton works good.
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| [11.1.2] Medium-level Security Guard |
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These guys are usually armed with assault rifles or shotguns, and they carry
yellow body armor. The best way to deal with them is to use the primary fire
mode of your shotgun (two shots) or rapid pistol shots in quick succession,
so they don't get a chance to return fire.
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| [11.1.3] High-level Security Guard |
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These are the highest level of the guards you encounter, and will be found at
Ultor's most protective complexes. They usually carry submachine guns, and
have more armor than the Medium-level guards. Use the primary fire of your
shotgun or assault rifle to dispose of them.
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| [11.2] Mechanical |
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There are two security bots you encounter, and one that can't be destroyed.
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| [11.2.1] Small Security Bot |
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These guys roam the halls, and although they are small, their energy cannon
does a fair bit of damage. A primary shotgun blast will destroy them.
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| [11.2.2] Large Security Bot |
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Guarding the more important areas of the Ultor Corporation, they are very
powerful and very resistance to most weapons. Your best bet against them is
the rocket launcher or rail driver.
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| [11.3] Mutants |
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